Good point, Mrs. Rennick. In fact, we had been helping Mexico develop
their economy under Clinton's NAFTA plan, which had begun to reduce the
illegal Mexican immigrant problem significantly in the late 90's. Clinton
had drawn some flack for NAFTA, as it allowed low skill, high polluting
industries to operate in Mexico or Canada (i.e., the Flint, MI situation)
- even tho these were less desirable American jobs, they were still jobs.
However, since the Bush administration's tax cut plan now demands that
all types of U.S. industry operate overseas wherever possible (i.e., tech
support in India) - even the desirable IT jobs. Since the Bush tax cuts
in effect expand free trade to the entire globe, most of the low skill
high polluting jobs which HAD at least left in order to strengthen
Mexico's economy have left Mexico in favor of even cheaper nations such
as China. The end result is deregulation with NO benefit to us
whatsoever, and the illegal Mexican immigrant problem has now surpassed
pre-NAFTA levels.


 adam